Rail Depot and Workshop Safety Technology
Delivering intelligent technologies to offer protection from dangerous environments in a safe and efficient manner.
Zonegreen’s team of experts has developed an impressive range of intelligent technologies to offer safety-related products and innovative planning of train maintenance operations, and has forged an unrivalled reputation for quality, safety and reliability.
Depot personnel protection systems, interlocking solutions, as well as railway maintenance planning applications and out-of-gauge warning systems are installed worldwide and can be used in sectors as diverse as transport, petrochemicals and aerospace.
The Depot Personnel Protection System, commonly referred to as the Depot Protection System, is specialised and designed to ensure the safe and controlled movement of rail vehicles into and out of depots, so that maintenance operations can be conducted without endangering staff or the depot infrastructure.
Zonegreen’s SMART DPPS™ is highly advanced, state-of-the-art and incorporates intelligent, distributed communication technology, as well as electronic personnel datakeys to uniquely identify staff working in different safety zones.
The Zonegreen’s SMART DPPS™ allows the user to:
Additionally, where overview software is included, the status of Zonegreen’s SMART DPPS™ and personnel logged on will be visualised graphically from the depot manager’s office via a wall display.
Designed to increase railway depot and workshop safety and efficiency, the Zonegreen Convertor allows the automation and remote operation of manual / hand points switches and rail road crossings.
Benefits of powering your manual points
The Zonegreen convertor system comprises two parts:
The planning of train maintenance operations is still commonly conducted on a big whiteboard located in the operations control room, on which the train units that require servicing, maintenance tasks, arrival and departure times are listed. These are updated manually either in a tabular form or on top of a graphical layout representing a bird’s eye view of the depot.
Zonegreen’s depot manager, as a multi-user, web-based graphical task planning application, is a cost-effective replacement of the whiteboard. It consists of two main views: a graphical layout representing the depot on which users can position trains and create and assign maintenance tasks, and a tabular layout to plan trains’ scheduled arrivals and departures.
The train maintenance function of the depot manager allows staff to:
The concept of interlocking has been applied to create increasingly sophisticated systems with the potential to prevent personal injury or costly damage. These systems can stop unauthorised train movements or actions by personnel not following stipulated safety procedures.
A typical installation is vastly superior to a permit to work system (which depends on personnel obeying written rules); physically prevents access to high-level working platforms while overhead line equipment remains live; isolates power to overhead crane while OLE is live; and ensures a safe system of work.
Zonegreen’s out-of-gauge warning system has been developed in response to rail industry demand for a ‘gold standard’ in obstacle detection systems. It is based around a series of non-contact laser rangefinder sensors and prevents a train from leaving the depot if its side skirt has not been fully closed.
If the sensor detects any kind of obstruction, for example an open side skirt, it will trigger an alert on the outbound visual warning board and illuminate a driver warning stop board on the depot exit road. The stop signs will remain illuminated until the warning is reset via the master keyswitch.
The out-of-gauge warning system is flexible and has a range of programmable options, such as a delayed response to help prevent the triggering of false alerts. It may also be expanded to cover the entire side area of the vehicle using a multiple sensor arrangement.
Zonegreen offers a range of safety-related equipment for depots, including but not limited to:
Zonegreen is now able to undertake additional servicing maintenance and installation works at rail and tram maintenance facilities (IRSE installers) in addition to its normal servicing of depot personnel protection and interlocking systems. Zonegreen now offers the following:
Some rail maintenance depots seem to look, and operate, as if they are still in the steam age. All very quaint, but how efficient are they, and even more important, how safe for depot staff?
There is no doubt that the rail industry is a potentially dangerous place to work. After all, there are not many industries that expect employees to deal with high voltage electricity, speeding vehicles, powerful machinery and thousands of members of the public on a daily basis.
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